iPhone 4

[caddyman]

Gizmodo.com are claiming to have got their hands on an example of Apple’s new iPhone 4, having paid $5,000 to someone who found it on a bar in Redwood City (wherever that may be). It was in a custom case to make it look like an iPhone 3G or 3GS in a Belkin case.

Having taken it apart and tried it out before the phone was wiped by iTunes, they have published the following article on their website.


The new iPhone 4.0?

Comments

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

Isn't that theft?

[jfs.livejournal.com]

There's a debate about that; basically under Californian law, yes - Gizmodo are guilty of receiving stolen goods, especially because they've got no real "We didn't know it was lost / stolen when we bought it from the bloke who found it" - the only value in the device is if it is actually an iPhone 4. And in California, if you find something lost and pick it up, you're then supposed to find the owner if it's at all possible.

But OTOH Apple would look like idiots going after Gizmodo from a PR point of view, and they've had their fingers burnt suing bloggers before.

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

I do rather wonder if it was lost on purpose.

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

I wondered that too :)

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Possibly - that's the other conspiracy theory. Apple lose a phone that's being launched in 6 weeks to draw attention from Android. Doesn't fit with their usual marketing strategy though.

[snorkel-maiden.livejournal.com]

Hm. So far not impressed with the outside. It looks like a flattened Sony Ericsson phone circa 2003.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

So long as I can get the upgrade to OS4 on my 3GS, I don't mind giving that one a miss. And it does mean that when I'm out of my contract, if I do want to upgrade handsets, the iPhone 4 will be mature.

[littleonionz.livejournal.com]

This is amazing,(Not this blog entry or comments!:) but that people will steal a bit of tech and get all over the top about what is (I think, though I may be wrong) just a phone. It is a phone isn't it?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

The iPhone is a lifestyle choice!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

No-one puts a gun to yourhead and forces you to buy Apple.

Not unless the National Assembly are more radical than I thought... ;-)

[pauln.livejournal.com]

To quote a friend from elsewhere:

The Eye-patch - a sticky thing that you put on your arm which helps to wean you off Apple products.

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

If it doesn't wobble then I'm happy! I hate the way mine wobbles when you lay it on the desk and type with one hand.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

You mean you put yours down? like lose contact with it and everything? like, actually let go? like release it from your actual hand?

*respect*

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

It's true - she has been known to go for minutes without touching her iPhone.

It ain't natcheral.